uuidgen manual page inconsistency

Bug #164189 reported by era
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: e2fsprogs

The uuidgen manual page seems to be scrambled here:

       Otherwise, it will chose a time-based UUID. It is possible to force
       the generation of one of these two UUID types by using the

       A UUID of the form 1b4e28ba-2fa1-11d2-883f-b9a761bde3fb (in printf(3)
       format "%08x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%012x") is output to the standard output.
       -r or -t options.

Looks like the final line would belong with the previous paragraph, I guess.

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote :
Changed in e2fsprogs:
status: New → Confirmed
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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote : Re: [Bug 164189] Re: uuidgen manual page inconsistency

This has already been fixed in git commit 3b302c2c. This fix will be
in the upcoming e2fsprogs 1.40.3 release.

      - Ted

Richard Laager (rlaager)
Changed in e2fsprogs:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Fixed: hardy has 1.40.3-1

Changed in e2fsprogs:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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